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“Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.”

Earth Mother Humanity Capitalism Destroying Mother Earth

Author:Evo Morales

“We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.”

Men Earth Mother Capitalism Convinced Destroying Mother Earth

Author:Evo Morales

“We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.”

Pay Capitalism Socialism Destroying

Author:James Cook

“Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is destroying many people's lives. It's just one leap to think in a different way.”

People Thinking Way Different Economy Capitalism Institutions Different Ways Just One Leap Links Destroying New Beginnings

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.”

Looks Social Security Example Movement Capitalism Weight Russia Enormous Alternatives Conformity Destroying Ideological Social Movements

Author:David Graeber

“We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.”

Economic Planets Models Capitalism Lifestyle Socialism Destroying Emissions Economic Models

Author:Hugo Chavez

“Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.”

Way Choices Energy Path Environment Planets Limits Capitalism Harmony Climate Climate Change Profit Destroying Capitalist Humankind Thirst

Author:Evo Morales

“The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.”

Has Beens States Economic Capitalism Destroying Restoring Economic Freedom

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other.”

“It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.”

People Needs Humans Looks Age Purpose Values Individual Behinds Economic Mass Capitalism Tools Organization Digital Destroying Platforms Chapters Commerce Emergence Chasms Economic Value

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.”

Knows Want Causes Term Effects Capitalism Advantage Slavery Majority Champion Destroying Dictatorship

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.”

May Two War Real Ends Facts Seems Past Simple Trouble Planets Capitalism Crisis Graves Tricks Despite Ideology Destroying Shopping Strategic Brilliance Grasping Cardinals Delusional

Author:Arundhati Roy